In 2019, the B.A.A. accepted more than 24,000 time qualifiers. That number is now down to 22,000.
The 2021 race was an anomaly, because the field size was reduced to 20,000 as races returned after the pandemic.
For the 2020 race, organizers announced 24,127 runners had been accepted by virtue of their time qualifiers, with a field size that was to be 31,500. In other words, 76.6 percent got in off of time. For the 2024 race, only 73.4 percent of the field was accepted by time qualifier, a significant drop for Boston hopefuls who live on the bubble of getting in or not.
Becky MacBride, 46, of Harwich, Massachusetts, was one of those. She missed the cutoff time by 1 second. She ran 3:44:32 at Cal International to beat her qualifying time by 5:28.Race organizers defended the breakdown. “While the number of qualifiers seems smaller than last year, it doesn’t yet account for a number of other qualifiers still to enter including professional athletes, Para Athletes , local club runners, International Tour Programs, partners who gain entry and are qualifiers,” wrote a B.A.A. spokesman in an email to“As the rest of the field enters, the number of qualifiers will elevate closer to 80 percent.
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